by WSG Crab Team | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Creature Feature: Graceful Crab Most people have never heard of the graceful crab (Cancer (Metacarcinus) gracilis), despite how common it is. That’s because it looks very similar to a crab people often see on their dinner tables, Dungeness crab. The two species look...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Zombie Crabs – Why Can’t We Get Those Here? In Europe, millions of zombie green crabs are roaming the shore. From the outside, you might not even realize they are brain dead, no longer truly a green crab, but have been transformed into a skittering, feasting,...
by WSG Crab Team | Aug 4, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
Crab Team’s Big Discovery! August 4th, 2016 You might have heard the recent news that Crab Team volunteers captured the first confirmed European green crab in Washington’s inland waters (but if you haven’t, read our blog post). The single adult male was...
by WSG Crab Team | Jun 7, 2016 | Monitor Resources
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among different sites, and track changes over time – even if different people are doing the sampling. With sampling on this scale, even the small steps can be important to...
by WSG Crab Team | May 11, 2016 | Crab Team Newsletter Archive
A river-otters eye view of the tranquil, reflective waters of Butterball cove. With such an adorable site name, it was perhaps no surprise that we got to see a couple of playful river otters scamper across the berm at Butterball Cove on the first day of sampling last...
